The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 162

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Episode 162

How pitiful.

This was the thought that occasionally crossed Roji’s mind when she looked at Dillen.

Of course, Roji didn’t completely sympathize with Dillen. She looked at him with a certain degree of hatred.

The woman who had stolen her body in childhood came to Herthas and gained the name Rose.

Her own name was Roji, but the existence of ‘Roji’ had been erased. Rose had made it so.

Roji watched all the scenes unfold and went around talking to this person and that person, trying somehow to prove that she was still alive.

But no one could hear her.

It was the same when Mother died.

She screamed alone that Mother might die at this rate, but there was no one to listen to her.

That’s why Roji hated the people of Herthas.

However, Dillen was somewhat of an exception.

Roji knew.

She knew about Dillen, who often left flowers at Mother’s grave.

Though he was the child who had tormented Mother to death, Roji half-understood his feelings.

But the other half couldn’t let go of her hatred, as he was a member of Herthas who had caused Mother pain.

“Breathe, Dillen.”

Rose looked pitifully at Dillen, who couldn’t even breathe and was only breaking out in cold sweat, as she pulled her body back while leaving the blade she had thrust in place.

“Look at this, Dillen.”

She kindly pressed the tip of the blade with her finger to show him.

“It’s a toy knife.”

“…Huff.”

“It’s a joke, just a joke.”

Even though she said it was a joke, Dillen collapsed weakly to the floor.

The sight of the two brothers sitting helplessly on the floor was quite a spectacle.

“I told you from the beginning not to let people in.”

Roji looked at the servants standing anxiously outside the door.

“Didn’t I?”

“Th-that is… the young master said that the Master was calling for the young lady…”

They were saying they had been fooled into opening the door.

“…It’s true. Father is calling for you.”

“…Is that so?”

Dillen glanced at Roji’s expression and carefully opened his mouth.

“…Rose, if it’s difficult, shall I come with you?”

How ridiculous, really.

Just because of one identical shell, he couldn’t recognize her.

The Rose you’re worried about isn’t here.

“No need. You just pick that up and take it. Though of course you wouldn’t have an ounce of compassion for your brother who’s bleeding like that.”

“You…”

Roji passed by Dillen and headed toward the Herthas Master’s room.

“Rose, my daughter.”

As she entered, the Master smiled brightly.

Roji briefly hid her disgusted expression and swallowed her pretense.

“Father.”

When the Master spread his arms, Roji jumped into his embrace as if she had been waiting for it.

Ah.

How wonderful it would be if she could jump into his embrace while holding a knife instead.

She thought this as she slowly wrapped her hands around the Master’s back.

“My proud daughter, did your pilgrimage go well?”

Not knowing any of this, the Master whispered ecstatically.

“Of course. It went very well.”

“Good. It wasn’t too difficult, was it?”

“To become a proud daughter, I must endure at least this much.”

At those words, the Master smiled happily.

How could he not be delighted when his daughter who had disappeared five years ago returned as a savior, placing wealth, honor, and power in his hands?

Roji buried her face in his chest.

She really wanted to kill him.

This damn bastard who had been merciless even when her mother begged so desperately to be saved.

Dillen, Yurta, and their father too.

And Rose, who had stolen her body and failed to protect Mother.

She hated them all.

Roji had entered this place to take revenge on Herthas.

* * *

“Ouch.”

This is why it’s dangerous to pass through the forest at night.

I accidentally stepped on a branch and fell.

Tears welled up slightly in my eyes and I kept blinking.

I rubbed my aching ankle and looked around.

How am I going to get home with this leg?

While I was struggling and suffering, rustle- I heard the sound of someone pushing through leaves and approaching from somewhere.

【Be careful going in. These days, there are quite a few people who suddenly go missing from the village…】

Suddenly, I remembered what Sian had said.

Why did he have to say something like that…!

I was irritably cursing when the rustling sound grew closer.

Just as I was about to pull my body back, a hand emerged, pushed aside the leaves, and looked at me.

“Madam?”

A familiar face.

Only then did I let out a sigh of relief and breathe easier.

“You didn’t return even after midnight, so I was worried and came out… Why on earth are you here like this?”

Rihardt approached me with a flustered expression.

“Well… I was on my way home when I fell and hurt my foot a bit…”

“Did you sprain your ankle?”

“Mm. Yes…”

As soon as I finished speaking, Rihardt tried to take my ankle in his hands. It still hurts, so where do you think you’re…!

Smack. When I swatted his hand away, he looked at me with a bewildered expression.

“It hurts, so don’t touch it.”

“Does it hurt a lot?”

He looked at me as if truly worried, then turned his body and showed me his back.

“Can you get on my back?”

“Thank you, Rihardt.”

I didn’t refuse and got on his back.

If it had been someone else, I would have declined immediately, but after seeing Rihardt easily lift objects weighing well over 100kg with one hand, I decided not to treat him as human.

“Just how long have you been here?”

Once he had safely gotten me on his back, Rihardt asked the question as if he had been waiting.

“Don’t tell me the reason you didn’t come back even though it was late was because your ankle hurt and you just stayed there the whole time?”

‘It’s not that serious of an injury.’

And I had just fallen.

He seemed to be thoroughly misunderstanding.

I thought about saying no, but then I’d have to explain where I was and what I was doing before that.

When I thought about telling him, worry came first.

Since he disliked me looking for work and interfered with it, he probably wouldn’t be happy about the current situation.

‘Maybe I’ll tell him later.’

“Your back is warm.”

I hugged his neck tightly and buried my head against him.

Perhaps because I was pressed closely against his back, I could feel his muscles tensing up completely.

Rihardt liked physical contact with me, but he had no immunity to this sort of thing.

“You know what, Rihardt? When I was little, my mother used to carry me on her back like this.”

Strangely, my memories of Korea had been hazy since coming to this place.

But often, old memories would surface like this.

Rihardt also knew that I often recalled childhood memories. Strangely, he would get anxious every time.

“But my mother wasn’t as strong as you, so she struggled to carry me even as a child. And I knew that… do you know what I did then?”

“…What did you do?”

“Once, my mother was tired and asked me to get down for a moment. I cried terribly and said I didn’t want to.”

It was a child’s selfish whining.

I leaned against him and murmured drowsily.

“I just strangely remembered that incident.”

“I think I understand that feeling. I was carried by my mother just once in my childhood, and I remember it being really nice.”

“Right? I guess a mother’s embrace really is the best. Now I’ve grown too big to be carried like that.”

“You have me, don’t you?”

I couldn’t help but laugh at those words.

Rihardt carried me to the cabin and carefully laid me down on the bed.

He brought a wet towel to wipe the dirt off me and even applied a compress to my ankle.

It was excessive for just spraining one leg, but I didn’t dislike it.

I had caught a severe cold before, and Rihardt had stayed by my side, caring for me with utmost devotion.

“Hold me, Rihardt.”

So I acted spoiled, unlike myself.

Rihardt’s expression, who would normally come over readily, was strangely shadowed.

“Rihardt?”

When I called him with confusion, his warm body temperature wrapped around me.

Feeling his warm body temperature always made me comfortable.

* * *

Rose’s embrace was warm.

Rihardt fell asleep holding her tightly. Rose also leaned against him with a comfortable expression, seeming to enjoy his body temperature.

However, at some point, the body temperature in his arms grew cold.

It was the time when dawn light was dimly filtering in.

Rihardt felt the disappeared warmth and bolted upright.

Rose, who should have been beside him, was gone.

No way, no way.

“Rose.”

“…”

“Rose, where are you.”

He searched the entire house, but no answer came from anywhere.

He reflexively felt around the crumpled blanket where traces of her lying remained.

Faint warmth.

It meant she hadn’t been gone for long.

Rihardt didn’t even think to fix his appearance and hurriedly rushed out of the cabin.

Her memories had definitely returned ‘again.’

* * *

What is this. What the hell is this.

Why is this happening.

It was a night like any other, falling asleep leaning against Rihardt’s embrace.

But suddenly my head hurt as if it would split, and strange memories began seeping in.

Dillen, Selline, Sian…

Various characters’ names came to mind, and I also remembered who the man lying next to me was.

Rihardt. This man was deceiving and manipulating me after I lost my memory.

‘I have to escape!’

So I rushed out of the cabin barefoot without even putting on shoes.

But with my injured foot from yesterday, I couldn’t go far.

It was time for the sun to slowly rise. But the forest was still dark, and I ended up tripping over a tree root.

Then.

“Rose.”

A chilling voice called her from behind.

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